Ako personally, I am for the disqualification of groups like MAD and mainstream political parties like Lakas-NUCD and Nationalist Peoples Coalition from the Party-List race.

Pero, the COMELEC should have disqualified them BEFORE THE ELECTIONS, NOT AFTER.

Right now, whether we like it or not, these groups have gained a mandate from the people. Yes, the Filipino people, in effect, gave their blessings to MAD, Lakas-NUCD, Nationalist People's Coalition, APEC, AMIN, PROMDI and others to serve them and act as their voice in Congress.

Two thumbs-up for the Comelec for disqualifying mad and the mainstream political parties in the party-list! Though that must have come too late already, at least we could still show some sense in that constitutional body: That they mean business.

Good luck na lang to the 6 new party-list representatives from the winning parties Bayan Muna, Akbayan and Butil (Luzon Farmers' party)!

And the next time around, can the Comelec please do their stuff even before or during the campaign period para hindi na pumalpak ang party-list election?

I agree that MAD and those main stream political parties should have been disqualified a long time ago as many here have already pointed out. Problem is, the COMELEC should have done this before the votes have been cast. This whole party-list problem only serves to highlight that this batch of COMELEC officials has got to be the most incompetent set of officials ever to occupy those positions. These guys so much time bickering among themselves, I'd be surprised that they get anything done at all. I don't know if it's possible, but IMHO, all these guys have to be fired and replaced. Who should replace them though is another matter, but definitely not these guys. Heck, I've seen pre-schoolers who act better than these guys.

Dapat lahat idisqualify. Walang kwenta naman ang party list system. The communists are just using it to conn the people so they can get more political power. Tangalin na dapat ang party list system. :bleh:

Originally posted by ScorpionEmperor
Dapat lahat idisqualify. Walang kwenta naman ang party list system. The communists are just using it to conn the people so they can get more political power. Tangalin na dapat ang party list system. :bleh:

You're too funny, Mr. Scorpion! :toofunny: Give up on the communist bogey of yours...panahon pa ni Makoy, ginagamit na yang excuse na yan. Baka maloko mo pa ang mga Pinoy noong 1960's and 70's with that reasoning of yours. The communists are less of a threat to our national security than that warped mind of yours.

Why Bayan Muna, Anakbayan and their ilk believe themselves to be the only legitimate marginalized sector in society takes the cake.

One may well ask: Just which sector do Bayan Muna and Anakbayan represent? If you ask them, they always reply that they represent multi-sectoral groups. Which multi-sectoral group, they hardly say, except in vague and general terms, such as the poor, the oppressed, laborers, peasants, human rights victims, farmers and even the elite, among others.

You see their leaders in virtually all street protests. They were there, with the Makati business groups, fighting alongside them. But aren't the Makati businessmen part of the elite?

Just what multi-sectoral groups do they truly represent? This is an important question because it is no secret they are aligned with the armed Left and serve as the Left's propaganda and political arm.

If there was no existing communist insurgency in this country today, then this question becomes irrelevant, because the legitimate Left have every right to dispose of their pork barrel to leftist programs that do not call for, or aid, armed insurrection.

The problem here is that we are allowing these noisy street parliamentarians to dictate who should and who should not sit in Congress when it is the Filipino people who should decide this, through the ballot.

But why are Bayan Muna, Akbayan and their ilk pressing for these winning party-list candidates' disqualification?

The answer is fairly obvious. By having them disqualified, there will be more chances for their losing leftist allies in the party-list who have lost the vote, to be included in a revised winning list.

blame the previous COMELEC chairmen and its former members (some of which are still there - the ERAP appointees).

as to disqualifying after winning, i think it happens naman in all our elections. there are those governors or congressman who are disqualified after winning dahil sa Green Card issue and this has happened a lot of times. wag naman dapat maging espesyal ang case ng MAD ng dahil lang kay Richard Gomez.

By the way, kung sisihan rin lang ang pag-uusapan, eh di ba mas kasisi-sisi ang Comelec kesa sa Akbayan and Bayan Muna? Well it's not just a matter of these 2 party-lists wanting to eliminate their rivals, but because these 2 have petitioned the Comelec to disqualify them because the 16 they petitioned don't really represent the true aspirations of the marginalized sector, isn't it? And it just so happened that we have slowpokes for those running the constitutional body.

Originally posted by Julius
Why Bayan Muna, Anakbayan and their ilk believe themselves to be the only legitimate marginalized sector in society takes the cake.

One may well ask: Just which sector do Bayan Muna and Anakbayan represent? If you ask them, they always reply that they represent multi-sectoral groups. Which multi-sectoral group, they hardly say, except in vague and general terms, such as the poor, the oppressed, laborers, peasants, human rights victims, farmers and even the elite, among others.

You see their leaders in virtually all street protests. They were there, with the Makati business groups, fighting alongside them. But aren't the Makati businessmen part of the elite?

Just what multi-sectoral groups do they truly represent? This is an important question because it is no secret they are aligned with the armed Left and serve as the Left's propaganda and political arm.

But why are Bayan Muna, Akbayan and their ilk pressing for these winning party-list candidates' disqualification?

The answer is fairly obvious. By having them disqualified, there will be more chances for their losing leftist allies in the party-list who have lost the vote, to be included in a revised winning list.

The Left are never known to play fair.

Let's crush this commie insects.... :bash:

Also, the left has never been right!

It claims to represent a marginalized sector of the country but they can not specify what. It keeps demanding things from the rest of the country, but it refuses to do something for the country.

It is instinctively against anybody and any group that the country would idolize; such as Erap, the Church, a popular group, a popular politician and others that may compete with its policy of attraction.

Millions of people voted for MAD, so there.

If Gloria achieves the kind of successes that would make her a popular leader, it will try to bring her down, too.
My crystal ball says so.

pero kung bubuwagin sa next election na. eh nanalo na ang Bayan Muna eh (#1 pa nga kahit walang Richard Gomez). as for Bayan Muna being a legitimate one, it's not for us to decide but for Comelec or Supreme Court. and they have decided ...

we all knew from the start that groups like MAD, etc. that did not represent underepresented sectors of society(which is a prerequisite for being a party list representative) had no business running in the first place. so what if you received votes. so what if you won and would displease your voters. you are missing the point entirely. you were govt funded(which you admitted on live tv and then tried to deny it later on...typical of any politician..a quality of a mediocre actor) look at mark jimenez and that rep who is in jail for raping a minor. they won but do you honestly think that they really ran for their constituents? mj is only out to protect his own a s s while that rep should be thrown in the gas chamber.

and now you insult our intelligence and call on people power 4 to install you as a representative. shame on you..stick to movies and your call boy pastimes. thats what your good at..sonny boy richard.